I Intend To Escape ......................And Come Back

On This Day - 15 December 1921

Several American anarchists arrived in Moscow, fleeing repression in the US. They are informed that Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman have fled the USSR for the USA, fleeing Bolshevik repression!

On This Day - 1 December 1976

Dirty old fucker Bill Grundy made the mistake of interviewing the Sex Pistols live.....

On This Day - 30 November 1994

The situationist writer Guy Debord committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart.

On This Day - 28 November 1757

The writer of "Jerusalem", William Blake was born in London.

On This Day - 27 November 1986

It was revealed that King George V's doctor hastened his death with cocaine and morphine. Well done that man!

On This Day - 26 November 1922

"You don't want to do that" - Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.

On This Day - 22 November 1966

In Strasbourg the Situationist's classic pamphlet "On The Poverty Of Student Life" is published.

On This Day - 14 November 1948

After a difficult birth due to the size of the baby's ears, Prince Charles was born in London.

On This Day - 8 November 1986

In the Soviet Union, Molotov, who amongst other achievements was the inventor of the petrol bomb, passed away.

On This Day - 31 October 1998

Over a thousand demonstrators brave torrential rain to march from Hyde Park to Whitehall, dragging a replica guillotine in front of them. The Movement Against The Monarchy march is believed to be the first major Republican march through London in the twentieth century.